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Trump press secretary takes issue with media

The spokesman also says that the 45th president had the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration

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Updated: 8:15 PM EST Jan 21, 2017

Trump press secretary takes issue with media

The spokesman also says that the 45th president had the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration

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WASHINGTON —

The press secretary for the Trump administration took issue with the media on Saturday.

On Friday when the nation and world watched the peaceful transfer of power, “some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting,” press secretary Sean Spicer said during a press conference this weekend.

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Spicer listed problems with photos that showed inaugurations between presidents as well as an error that was made about an Oval Office decoration.

He took issue with photos of inaugural proceedings that contrasted the number of people attending inaugurations for presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. He said photographs were "intentionally framed in a way in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that it gathered on the National Mall."

Spicer said this was the first time that coverings were used to protect grass on the National Mall; also, fencing and other issues created issues from people attending the event as quickly as they had in the past, he said.

He also noted that a reporter erroneously reported that a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed. The article at time.com was later corrected, reflecting that sculpture is still in the Oval Office.

“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe,” Spicer said.

“These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong.” he said.

No figures on global viewership were provided by the administration, and the administration declined to answer questions at the press conference.